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English
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Noun
sixties
- plural of sixty
Noun
sixties pl (plural only)
- Alternative letter-case form of Sixties (The decade of the 1860s, 1960s, etc.)
- The decade of one's life from age 60 through age 69.
- (temperature, rates, plural only) The range between 60 and 69.
Highs in the mid sixties.
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decade of the 1960s
- Dutch: jaren zestig n pl, jaren 60 n pl, jaren 1960 n pl
- Esperanto: 1960-aj jaroj
- Finnish: kuusikymmentäluku
- French: années soixante f pl, années 60 f pl
- Georgian: სამოციანები (samocianebi), სამოციანი წლები (samociani c̣lebi), 60-იანები (60-ianebi), 60-იანი წლები (60-iani c̣lebi)
- German: sechziger Jahre n pl, Sechziger pl
- Hungarian: hatvanas évek
- Indonesian: tahun enam puluhan
- Japanese: 六十年代 (rokujū-nendai), 60年代 (rokujū-nendai)
- Korean: 60년대 (yuksimnyeondae)
- Polish: lata sześćdziesiąte pl, lata 60. pl
- Spanish: años sesenta m, sesentas f
- Swedish: sextiotalet (sv) n, sextiotal (sv) n
- Tagalog: dekada sesenta
- Welsh: trigeiniau m pl, chwedegau m pl
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Adjective
sixties (not comparable)
- From or evoking the 61st through 70th years of a century (chiefly the 1960s).
- She coughed as she exhaled. Sixties weed had been nowhere near this strong.
1993, Arthur Marwick, “Six Novels of the Sixties — Three French, Three Italian”, in Journal of Contemporary History, volume 28, number 4, →DOI, page 588:Historians do not rely on single bits of evidence, but are always seeking corroboration, qualification, correction. These novels, set in context, are in themselves interesting fragments of sixties culture.